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Vh RURAL NEW.YORKER 
November 22, 1924 
Just Common Sense 
F ARM electrification, like farming itself, is a matter of com¬ 
mon sense. 
Farmers do not want electricity unless they can use it profitably. 
But how can they learn to use it profitably? By experiment. 
That is exactly what is now being done. 
A National Committee of economists and engineers has organ¬ 
ized state groups of farmers to whom electric service is now 
rendered. Each state group, with the assistance of its agricul¬ 
tural college and farm-paper editors, applies electricity in old 
•and new ways. It keeps accurate records of operating and 
producing costs for comparison with the costs of unelectrified 
years. Electricity is being adapted to farming, and farming to 
electricity. 
From time to time the results of these experiments will be 
made known. Farmers will not have to wait years before they 
can throw switches and fill silos electrically. 
Even those farmers who have long had electricity, because 
their local conditions made it profitable to apply it, will receive 
the benefit. For they will see how they can make even greater 
use of electric service. 
Thus the common-sense method of gathering the facts experi¬ 
mentally is helping along the work of farm electrification. 
TYie Committee in charge of the work is 
composed of economists and engineers 
representing the American Farm Bureau 
Federation, the Departments of Agricul¬ 
ture, the Interior and Commerce, the 
Power Farming Association of America, 
the American Society of Agricultural En¬ 
gineers and the National Electric Light 
Association. 
A booklet has been published by the 
Committee. It will be sent on request 
free of charge. Read it and pass it on to 
your neighbor. Write for it either to Dr. 
E. A. White, American Farm Bureau Fed¬ 
eration, 58 E. Washington St., Chicago, 
Ill., or to the National Electric Light 
Association, at 29 Wes? 39th Street, 
New York City. 
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Storing Carrots and 
Parsnips 
How are carrots and parsnips kept dur¬ 
ing Winter? J. A. C. 
If just a few carrots or parsnips are 
needed for home consumption, put them 
on a dirt floor in a cool cellar and throw 
some earth over them to keep from wilt¬ 
ing. If a large quantity is stored for 
Winter, put them in a pyramid heap and 
cover with straw or cornstalks, covering 
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Countrywide Situation 
ORCHARD FRUITS CLEANING UP—PRICES 
GENERALLY GOOD-THE FRUIT REGIONS 
OF WESTERN NEW YORK—PRICES OF 
FARM PRODUCE. 
The fruit shipping season passes its 
height of activity at shipping points in 
October. Most of the crops have been 
cleaned up by that time and placed in 
storage or shipped to market. There is 
still a large quantity of late-moving pro¬ 
duce in November. City markets are in 
full swing throughout November and the 
first half of December, due to city stor¬ 
age and distribution and the rush of pre¬ 
paration for the Thanksgiving and Christ¬ 
mas holidays. The fairly good level of 
prices held by wheat, cotton, apples and a 
few other lines helped to hold up the gen¬ 
eral average of returns and to offset the 
low prices of so many farm products. 
A good “sign” 
iSuch a sign as the following, posted by 
a local dealer, “$1.50 paid for wheat 
here,” does much to promote cheerfulness 
in the farming regions, and there is still 
considerable wheat raised, even in the 
eastern farming States. Field beans, as 
usual, sell better when grain is high and 
growers in Western New York get TY 2 
cents for red varieties and over 4 cents 
for the white kinds. Lettuce turned out 
a very good crop in eastern commercial 
regions. Apples are selling fairly high. 
The general range of shipping points, 
Virginia to Western New York, is $4 to 
$5 per barrel for best grades of standard 
varieties, and $1.25 to $1.75 for basket 
stock. 
A GREAT FARMING REGION 
A trip through the Western New York 
fruit region the last of October indicated 
that about three-fourths of the crop had 
been gathered by that time. As in most 
the apple regions, the yield was not large 
and there was considerable evidence of 
scab and other defects. In some regions 
the crop was so rough that growers did 
not attempt to grade it, but sold it to 
canners or driers, who sorted and bar¬ 
reled the best and used the other for man¬ 
ufacturing. The yield of Greening was 
better than of Baldwin. Western New 
York, in the four or five counties along 
the - lake front, is the heart of the Green¬ 
ing country. In that section Baldwin 
produce well, but do not put on high color. 
Greening are of excellent appearance and 
in active demand in the New York City 
market Probably this is the only region 
where young orchards of Greening are 
being set out to any great extent. They are 
mostly 'Rhode Island Greening, but some 
Northwestern Greening are seen in the 
old orchards and in the new plantings. 
This variety is of fine size and appear¬ 
ance, but hardly equal in quality to the 
old favorite. There seems to be a ten¬ 
dency to set out some Fall apples, partic¬ 
ularly the McIntosh, (Wealthy and Olden- 
berg. The Baldwin, as always, is popu¬ 
lar, although it does not color highly in 
this region. Probably there is danger of 
over-planting the Fall varieties because 
of their short season, which limits the 
quantities that can be disposed of. Cold 
storage will help somewhat in that direc¬ 
tion, as many growers claim to be able to 
market such short season varieties as the 
McIntosh all through the Winter by hold¬ 
ing them in storage. The greater part of 
the high-grade apples raised in the fruit 
region of Western New York is shipped 
away to city markets; not as a rule di¬ 
rectly by the growers, but by local buyers, 
who ship by the carlot, thus obtaining the 
benefit of carlot freight rates. Co-oper¬ 
ative associations handle a small percent¬ 
age of the crop, and opinion differs as to 
whether the trend is toward co-operation 
in fruit selling or away from it. 
Most of the orchards are of rather 
small size, ranging from 10 to 40 acres, 
and are handled in connection with other 
lines of farm production. This is one of 
the principal differences as compared 
with the southern orchard region in Vir¬ 
ginia and West Virginia, where the very 
large orchard is the usual type. Another 
striking difference is the style of the 
trees, which are much lower in the south¬ 
ern region, with trunks often not more 
than 1 or 2 ft. long, while often the 
younger orchards in Western New York 
are likely to have trunks 2 to 4 ft. high. 
The saving in cost of spraying and pick¬ 
ing is quite evident in the case of the 
Shorter trunks. 
Besides apples, there is considerable at¬ 
tention given to pears, mostly Bartletts 
and Kieffers, Elberta peaches, Damson 
and Japanese plums, Montmorency and 
Morello cherries. Quinces are not much 
of a special feature, the trees being grown 
in small patches along the edge of ditches 
or around low spots in the orchard. 
g. B. F. 
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